After a long journey, Mei Yousong and his party finally came to Xinfeng County, and Song Yingchang personally went to the city gate to greet Mei Yousong and his party.

"Lady May."

"Lord Song."

"Lord Mei, I am a sinner, I should not be called 'adult', Lord Mei can call me by name."

"No, the defeat of our army cannot be blamed on Lord Song, if it is replaced by our army to face the thieves, we will also be defeated."

Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang exchanged a few polite words, and called each other "Brother Mei" and "Brother Song", and the relationship became a lot closer.

After a long journey to Xinfeng County, Mei Yousong did not hurry to rest, but asked Song Yingchang about the People's Army for the first time, although Mei Yousong already knew some things about the People's Army through letters, but the letters could not fully describe everything about the People's Army, from the mouths of the former commanders around Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong was able to understand the People's Army better.

Only with a thorough understanding of the People's Army, Mei Yousong can think about how to lead the Ming Army to defeat the People's Army, and will not end up with Song Yingchang, obviously Song Yingchang did not have a thorough understanding of the People's Army in the previous two wars, and was found by the People's Army to defeat the Ming Army.

In the room, Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang sat down face to face, and Song Yingchang gave Mei Yousong a detailed account of what he knew about the People's Army.

"The strength of the thieves on the three sides of Guangdong is not much less than that of our army, and the number of recruits among the thieves is very large, seven or eight out of ten are recruits, but it is such a thief army that has repeatedly defeated our army.

The strength of the thief army lies in two points, one is a long-range and powerful firearm, the range is more than 200 zhang, our army must rely on chariots to be able to fight the thief army in close combat.

The second point is a kind of firearm that bursts after igniting the gunpowder in the iron sheet, this kind of firearm is relatively heavy, and can only be thrown five or six zhang away at most, but it is with this firearm that the thief is invincible in close combat, and hundreds or thousands of firearms can be thrown forward, killing and injuring thousands of soldiers. ”

Song Yingchang told Mei Yousong about the people's army's tiger head gun and hand grenade, and after listening to it, Mei Yousong was greatly moved by the two firearms of the people's army.

"I don't know where this thief got these two firearms, if our army can have these two firearms, it will not be a problem to defeat the thief."

Song Yingchang said: "The former kind of firearm is not available, but the latter kind of firearm was obtained by me (army) a few, the craftsman dismantled it, and found that this kind of firearm is very simple, given time to be able to build, I have ordered the rear to build this kind of firearm, and soon our army will be able to use it." ”

"Very good, if our army has this kind of firearm, the advantage of the thief will be one less, the thief is sharp, but our army also has a chariot to resist, the thief only occupies a place in Guangdong, the population is not more than 10 million, and I still have a population of 10,000, a million army, and I will be able to exterminate the thief at any cost!" Mei Yousong said with a smile.

After talking about the military strength of the People's Army and the Ming Army for a while, Mei Yousong asked Song Yingchang about the situation under the rule of the People's Army, and through letters, Mei Yousong learned about some of the situations under the rule of the People's Army, which made Mei Yousong sigh greatly, it is really rare for the People's Army to treat the people so well, and at the same time, it also made Mei Yousong pay more attention to the People's Army.

Throughout the ages, the landlord class has been very important, and only with the support of the landlord class can the rebellion succeed, and it is impossible for a group of rebellious people to succeed in the rebellion.

However, we should not forget that the common people at the bottom are the main source of troops, and the people's army is good to the people, and the common people can only join the people's army if they can take the initiative, but there will be problems when the young and strong are forcibly recruited to join the people's army.

Mei Yousong asked, Song Yingchang naturally wanted to explain the situation under the rule of the People's Army to Mei Yousong in detail, part of this information was collected by the Ming army spies entering Guangdong, and some of it was sent by the wealthy gentry and businessmen who had already been interested in the Ming court.

From the raid of the wealthy gentry and businessmen who did evil, to the distribution of land to the common people, and then to the elimination of bandits and bandits, the People's Army did a lot of things that the Ming Army should have done, and quickly won the support of the people under the Ming Dynasty, attracting many young people to take the initiative to join the army, making the total strength of the People's Army more than the current Ming Army troops gathered on three sides in Guangdong, but most of the People's Army are new recruits.

Listening to Song Yingchang's story, Mei Yousong felt more emotion about the People's Army in his heart, just this part of the People's Army's strength, with the population of Guangdong, the People's Army has already won the hearts of the people, as long as the People's Army wants to, it can gather an army of one million at most.

Even if the vast majority of this million-strong army are new recruits, and with the People's Army's two firearms, it will not be a problem for the People's Army to defeat the Ming Army on three sides of Guangdong, and the People's Army will be able to occupy more territory, and even sweep a third of the world.

At present, the People's Army has only 200,000 or 300,000 troops, and there are not many young and strong recruits, so that the common people under the rule of the People's Army can continue to carry out normal production and life.

This made Mei Yousong feel that the People's Army did not take the Ming Army in its eyes, but the Ming Army was defeated by the People's Army in both battles.

At this time, Mei Yousong felt why Song Yingchang hurriedly led the Ming army to attack the People's Army for the first time, if the People's Army was given a long time, the People's Army would be able to rely on Guangdong and the common people under its rule to have a foundation, and it was necessary to dispatch more Ming troops to be able to exterminate the People's Army.

It's a pity that Song Yingchang still underestimated the strength of the People's Army, and the Ming army was defeated twice and suffered heavy losses, so he was replaced by Mei Yousong.

At present, Mei Yousong still does not have a complete understanding of the situation of the People's Army, but in Mei Yousong's heart, the People's Army has become a very powerful enemy, so that Mei Yousong, who has just taken office, does not dare to act rashly and will not send a small force to test the People's Army.

Now all Mei Yousong can do is wait, wait for the northern border army, the Ming army from all over the north, and the new army in the south to gather, and build more firearms of the people's army for the Ming army to equip the Ming army, and then Mei Yousong will lead the Ming army to launch an attack on the people's army.

After learning about the People's Army from Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong still had a big doubt in his heart, and Song Yingchang also had this doubt, that is, where did the People's Army come from?

According to the People's Army's own statement, that is, the top leaders of the People's Army are all from mountain people, but the top leaders of the People's Army are literate and can govern a place or lead an army to fight.

Obviously, there is a big secret hidden behind the People's Army, perhaps there was such a force under the Ming Dynasty that intended to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, so they secretly cultivated the People's Army, raised the anti-flag in Guangdong, a remote place far from the center of the Ming Dynasty, and occupied most of Guangdong in a short period of time.

Song Yingchang had ordered someone to investigate whether there was really such a force under the Ming Dynasty, and Mei Yousong was also ready to investigate this.

It was impossible for either of them to imagine that the People's Army was completely supported by Fang Nan alone.